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Nurse accuses embassy official of asking for cut

ABS-CBNnews.com

Posted at 11/20/2012 3:44 PM

MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino nurse has accused an official of the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait of trying get a a percentage from the supposed benefits that the worker would get after a case settlement.

Patrick Singson said he went to the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait to seek assistance after an Arab doctor punched him inside the operating room just this year.

“Nagkamali po ako ng hawak doon sa instruction niya then he suddenly punched me twice,” said Singson, who is now back in the Philippines.

Singson said he filed a complaint before the management of the hospital and sought additional support from the embassy but was allegedly turned down.

“Hindi daw po ako entitled because they are only giving it to the domestic helpers,” he said.

Instead, Singson was referred by Daligdig Ibrahim Tanandato, the chief of the Assistance to Nationals unit of the embassy, to another Filipino who introduced himself as a financier to help him in his case.

“You should accept 10,000 KD as a form of settlement. May porsyento na kami doon,” Singson said, quoting Tanandato and the other Pinoy.